Braids

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Duke Albrecht III. in the regalia of braid
Pigtail silver hoop. This piece was created around 1377 and is the only known original badge of the order that still exists. Museum in the Palais, Graz

The Zopforden , also known as the Order of the Braid or Order of the Locke , was a short-lived Austrian court knightly order, the Duke Albrecht III. founded in the 2nd half of the 14th century.

history

The Zopforden belonged together with the Salamander Order, the Eagle Order and the Order of Albrecht VI. to the repeatedly unsuccessful attempts to establish a Habsburg house order . They are to be seen as a preliminary stage to the Order of the Golden Fleece .

According to the autobiography of the Swabian knight Georg von Ehingen , the founding of the order was preceded by an incident which, however, is historically not verified due to the lack of documentary information: Duke Albrecht III. was given her braid by a lady. In her honor he then founded the knightly order with the braid as a sign of the order. The identification of this lady with Beatrix von Zollern, Albrecht's second wife from 1375 until his death, is conceivable. The report of Ehingens would suggest a foundation before the year 1388, but this cannot be proven. However, it is certain that the order perished with the death of its founder. The only surviving medal is in the museum in the Palais of the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz .

The braid consisted of a plaited braid , which was bent as a ring around an inlaid coat of arms . The coat of arms showed a Montfort church flag . Another coat of arms showed this order in the upper coat of arms , chained to the heraldic helmet and a duck in the middle of the ring. Everything above the Austrian bar coat of arms.

See also

literature

  • The oldest city coat of arms of Lucerne with the Order of the Salamander, am Rhyn, Lucerne 1938
  • Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Duchess Beatrix von Zollern and the Zopforden. In: Local history supplement [to the official gazette of the district authority Mödling], 50th year, F. 3, (Mödling September 5, 2015), p. 19f.
  • Eva Bruckner: Forms of representation of power and self-portrayal of Habsburg princes in the late Middle Ages , phil. Dissertation, Vienna, 2009, p. 33f.

Web links

Commons : Order of the Braid  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Chronik Österreichs, Walter Kleindel, 1989, original from the University of Michigan, digitized on February 12, 2007, ISBN 3883790273
  2. ↑ a b The great book of coat of arms art, Walter Leonhard, Verlag Georg DW Callway, Munich 1978 ISBN 3-7667-0335-8
  3. ↑ Forms of representation of power and self-portrayal of Habsburg princes in the late Middle Ages (PDF; 15.0 MB) , Eva Bruckner, dissertation, University of Vienna, 2009